How prepared are you for January exams?

IceBus said:
Ah Kanji... they were not my friend either. We only had to use Hiragana so afair bit easier!
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I just think they're more difficult for Westerner's to learn. The Chinese students on my course, of course, already know them. But we (Westerners) can pronounce better than them :)

I've just got to re-learn katakana as I've forgotten half of them and about 50kanji... Not much but I have LOADS to do. Doing Japanese on top of a PhD coupled with laziness was not my wisest moment.
 
aayzof said:
Yeah, the politics version is something like "Intellectuals and the Formation of American Foreign Policy" or something like that isn't it? Do you know what the Year 2 module on weapons of mass destruction is like? I'm currently in the selection stages for fast track to the Foreign Office and want as many politics modules as I can get onto. Also, in 3rd year, is it one or two year 2 modules that you can take?
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Any idea who teaches it?

I haven't done it myself, but should be able to give you a reasonable idea of it if you know who teaches it! Friends my mine who did an MA with the politics department did that module and seemed to have enjoyed it. If you're looking for cutting edge foreign policy within the politics department try and get on one of Rod Thornton's modules. He's new to the department this year and has literally written the book on terrorism ('Asymmetrical Warfare')! Wyn Rees is also very good security-wise.

Third year it really depends if you do a dissertation as that'll hugely affect how many other modules you do. AFAIK if you do a dissertation you'll still need to take a couple of other modules. If you fire check the school handbook from the politics department it should say. Are you joint honours?

You're in selection for the FCO fast track already? I'm considering the diplomatic service and haven't done anything about it yet.


jdickerson said:
I just think they're more difficult for Westerner's to learn. The Chinese students on my course, of course, already know them. But we (Westerners) can pronounce better than them :)

I've just got to re-learn katakana as I've forgotten half of them and about 50kanji... Not much but I have LOADS to do. Doing Japanese on top of a PhD coupled with laziness was not my wisest moment.
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Good luck mate, I was only a first year so I appreciate how hard it must be doing it on top of a PhD! It was the same as us, all the Chinese students absolutely aced Kanji etc.
 
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